“On Nov. 6, deputies received a complaint from an elderly woman regarding several personal checks that had been stolen from her home,” Bazinet said Thursday in a news release. “Once the victim realized the checks had been stolen, she contacted her bank and discovered over $300 worth of her checks had been written and cashed at a local bank.”

Bazinet said detectives discovered Fontenot had stolen the checks from the victim’s home, forged the victim’s signature and cashed them.